GERMANY NOT A MENACE
COULD NOT MOBILISE ARMY AT SHORT NOTICE COMPARISON WITH FRANCE BERLIN, Friday. The Minister of Defence, Herr Oroener, speaking at a banquet at the conclusiou of the German Army manoeuvres in south-west Germany, said only one cavalry and one infantry division had taken part in the manoeuvres, with dummy tanks and wooden guns, and there were no airplanes. This contrasted with the French Army manoeuvres, held within a fortnight., each with 50,000 men. ’’This comparison alone,” he said, “gives the lie to those who see our army as a menace to our neighbours. Those who know ail that is required of a modern army must know how silly it is to assert that Germany, by mobilising her reservists, would be able to put a large army in the field at short notice.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1082, 20 September 1930, Page 9
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136GERMANY NOT A MENACE Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1082, 20 September 1930, Page 9
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